Re: A newbie's view

["Seth M. Landsman" <seth@job.cs.brandeis.edu>]

On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 07:24:13PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
> > 	Documentation isn't that useful if it isn't always read or paid
> > attention to.  It is a sad statement, but when someone compiles the kernel
> > for the first time they may not know what the really wrong choices to make
> > are.
> 
> Oh I dunno. I got through a 1.1.59 compile by reading the Documentation.
> 
> Maybe an auto-lilo updater with a backup configuration of your last working
> kernel would solve this problem.
> 
> so there is always a failover if something goofs.

	Well, there are lots of people who don't read documentation.  If
you don't believe that, you're kidding yourself ... :)

	I think, besides have lilo backup a working kernel, the make
process should do some sort of integrity check on the kernel to make sure
it would boot (i.e., check that the elf loader is in there).  It isn't
very useful to tell the user that this failed if you don't given them some
clue how or why it failed.

-Seth
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